OBJECTIVE Review surgical techniques and outcomes of ultrasound-guided, transfacial, gland-preserving removal of difficult parotid stones. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Two academic tertiary care centers. METHODS Patients who underwent ultrasound-guided, combined transfacial-endoscopic operation for symptomatic parotid sialolithiasis from June 2010 through June 2012 ...

Interposed abdominal compression cardiopulmonary resuscitation, henceforth referred to as IAC-CPR, is an adjunct standard CPR (S-CPR) according American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines since 1992.

the aim of this study is to determine the effect of the aqueous extract of the leaves of eucalyptus globules on blood glucose level in fasted rats, and to find a new medical adjunct to anti-diabetes drugs. the aqueous extract of eucalyptus was administered in various doses (150-400 mg/kg) orally. blood glucose level was checked 2-6 h after treatment. the study showed that oral administration of...

background craniosynostosis results from premature closure of one or more cranial sutures, leading to deformed calvaria and craniofacial skeleton at birth. postoperative complications and outcome in intensive care unit (icu) is related to surgical method and perioperative management. this study determined the perioperative risk factors, which affect outcome of patients after craniosynostosis su...

this research, in addition to survey the existing data on the quality of sahebgharanieh wastewater treatment plant's effluent in the previous years, by runing a three months monitoring stage, studies the conditions of the final settling and aeration basin and the variations of the influent and effluent quantity and quality in removing of major pollutants (bod, cod, tss), while scrutinizing the ...

background: the aim of this study was to estimate the frequency and rate of the first 50 common types of invasive procedures in iran. methods: data about the number of all invasive procedures and each type of procedure that were conducted in iran in 2010 were collected using the main insurance organizations database. these numbers were sorted in an excel database, and the first 50 invasive proc...

a strategy that integrates an organization's marketing goals into a cohesive whole, ideally drawn from market research, focuses on the ideal product mix in order to achieve maximum profit potential; the marketing strategy is set out as a marketing plan, a good idea, method, information, object, or service that is the end result of a process and serves as a need or want satisfier. it is usually ...

let g be a simple connected graph. the first and second zagreb indices have been introducedas  vv(g)(v)2 m1(g) degg and m2(g)  uve(g)degg(u)degg(v) , respectively,where degg v(degg u) is the degree of vertex v (u) . in this paper, we define a newdistance-based named hyperzagreb as e uv e(g) .(v))2 hm(g)     (degg(u)  degg inthis paper, the hyperzagreb index of the cartesian product...